ssibly bribery of local officials). If the price is reduced, the brothel may be forced to lay off some of its workers, thus reducing the quantity supplied.
The following chart illustrates the situation:
In this chart, the supply is represented by the curve s while demand is represented by the curve d. For the purposes of this illustration, prices (given the fact that it was World War II) are expressed in dollars and quantity is expressed as number of customers.
At the equilibrium point A, the price is $8 and the quantity demanded is service for 20 customers. If the price is reduced to $5, the quantity demanded increa
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